The three books reviewed continue the time-honored tradition of observing life in schools. Each book offers a different perspective on this topic and provides stimulating ideas about how collaboration between school personnel and academic researchers can be accomplished. Each also raises questions about the meaning of doing ethnographic research.…

This commentary expands on Patricia Graham's discussion, in her book "S.O.S.: Sustain Our Schools," of the role of higher education institutions in school reform. The article discusses issues surrounding how knowledge is being created in teacher education and the forms it is taking, the role of school-university partnerships, and new…

Five texts by Brian L. Fife (1992), Chester E. Finn and Theodor Rebarber (1992), John Godar (1990), Nathan Rutstein (1992), and Yael Sharan and Shlomo Sharan (1992) on cultural diversity and education reform emphasize the importance of cooperation, administrative decentralization, the need for critical thinking, values that provide common ground,…